Call for Papers

VJ 2019: 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts
27-29 November 2019
Aveiro, Portugal
http://videojogos2019.web.ua.pt/

Submission deadline: July 31, 2019

SCOPE

Ten years, and ten years more.

The 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts will be held on November 27-29, organised by the Departament of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro, and the Society of Video Games Sciences (SPCV). The annual conferences of the SPCV promote the scientific gathering of researchers in Portugal. These conferences are attended by researchers and professionals in the expanded field of videogames – Multimedia, Communication, Technology, Education, Psychology and Arts – to disseminate work and exchange experiences between the academic community and with the industry.

In 2009 the conference was held at University of Aveiro. 2019 will mark the coming back after 10 years. We intend then to show a thorough roadmap of the evolution of the national and international game research during these 10 years, as also ideas and speculations for the next 10 years.… read more. “Call: VJ 2019: 11th Conference on Videogame Sciences and Arts”

Call for Papers

3rd International Workshop on the Applications of Knowledge Representation and Semantic Technologies in Robotics (AnSWeR19)
Co-located with the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2019)
Dates: November 4/8 (tbd), 2019
Venue: The Venetian Macao, Macau, China (co-located with IROS2019)
Site: http://wiki.knoesis.org/index.php/Answer-Robotic-SemanticWeb-IoT-Workshop-IROS2019
Hashtag: #answer2019
Twitter: @answerworkshop

Deadline for submission: June 30th, 2019
Submissions page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=answer19

ORGANISERS

Ilaria Tiddi – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL
Amelie Gyrard – Wright State University, US
Masoumeh (Iran) Mansouri – Örebro University, Sweden
Emanuele Bastianelli – Heriot-Watt University, UK

DESCRIPTION

Autonomous mobile agents and robotics, in general, are experiencing a growing interest due to a number of factors, e.g. the advancements in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Computer Vision; the amount of new efficient techniques for basic robotic tasks (perception, manipulation, navigation etc.); and the increasing number of cost-accessible robotic platforms in the market.… read more. “Call: 3rd International Workshop on the Applications of Knowledge Representation and Semantic Technologies in Robotics (AnSWeR19)”

Call for Paper and Panel Proposals

Documentaries and the Fiction/Nonfiction Divide
November 15-16, 2019
Queen Mary University of London
https://aestheticsfilmstudies.weebly.com/

Submission deadline: July 29, 2019.

The project has received funding from the British Society for Aesthetics.

Confirmed keynotes:
Professor Brian Winston, Lincoln Chair, Lincoln School of Film and Media, University of Lincoln.
Dr Stacie Friend, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London.

The fiction/nonfiction divide is a much discussed topic in contemporary analytic aesthetics. According to classic works like Walton’s Mimesis as Make-Believe (1990) and Currie’s The Nature of Fiction (1990), fiction essentially involves imagining whereas nonfiction essentially involves believing. However, more recent works like Friend’s “Fiction as a Genre” (2012) and Matravers’ Fiction and Narrative (2014) have put under pressure this conception of the fiction/nonfiction divide. Surprisingly, documentaries are seldom mentioned in this debate, which has so far mainly focused on literary narratives.… read more. “Call: Documentaries and the Fiction/Nonfiction Divide conference”

Call for Papers

HCI India 2019
Agents and Agency: HCI in the age of Machine Intelligence
November 1-3, 2019
Hyderabad, India
https://www.indiahci.org/2019/

Submissions due: 15 June 2019

Today, the domain of HCI is being significantly shaped by intelligent, autonomous and self-learning systems and technologies. The HCI and Design communities in both academia and industry are seeking an innovative competitive edge by investing in AI-driven machine intelligence. HCI has long recognized agency, the sense of human freedom to manipulate interactions with technology. Today, as our everyday agentive interactions increase the involvement of technology there is a need to examine the possible intersections between technology, human agents and the rise of intelligent systems in HCI. As we explore the overlap between HCI, the sense of agency, and interactions among humans and computers, an overarching consideration is to discuss the potential implications of self-learning systems for interaction design in a community of technology users and intelligent machine interfaces.… read more. “Call: HCI India 2019 – Agents and Agency: HCI in the age of Machine Intelligence”